Taxonomy of meanings for 掩:
- 掩 yǎn (OC: qromʔ MC: ʔɯiɛm) 衣儉切 上 廣韻：【閉取也説文云斂也小上曰掩 】
- COVER
- vtoNcover (e.g. ears, so as to make unable to interact with the outside); hide; retrace (their own traces); block up;
- vtoNpassivebe covered
- vt(oN)cover up something contextually determinate so as to block it
- vtoNimperativecover
- vtoNto cover with vegetationLZ
- generalised>SURPASS
- CATCH
- specific>GAMBLE
- grammaticalised>ALL
- COVER
Additional information about 掩
說文解字: 【掩】，斂也。小上曰掩。从手、奄聲。 【衣檢切】
- Criteria
- COVER
1. The current general word for any mode of covering something for any purpose or in any way is fù 覆. The covering agent can be animate or inanimate, but typically the purpose of the covering is protection.
2. Bèi 被 is to cover all over, typically in order as to protect from outside impact of cold etc.. The covering agent is typically human.
3. Bì 蔽 (cog. bì4 庇 "protect") is to cover so as to keep from physical or intellectual sight, and this may be said freely of animate and inanimate subjects to whom the covering effect is attributed.
4. Yǎn 掩 / 揜 is an informal word which focusses on the deliberate act by a human, executed with his hand, which is designed to prevent something from being discovered or from getting in touch with other things.
5. Gài 蓋 is to cover with a lid or the like, typically to protect not against damage but against intrusion of external things. See HIDE
6. Méng 蒙 is typically and primarily to make something obscure by some action of hiding or covering it, often with paper or cloth.
7. Jīn 巾 refers to covering something with a cloth.
8. Zhē 遮 is an elevated term referring to covering up something so as to protect it against interference from the outside and to hinder physical access of hostile forces, and this covering may be by humans or by physical effects.
- BLOCK
[[CONGERIES]]; [GENERAL], [SPECIFIC]
1. Sè 塞 (ant. tōng 通 "be unblocked") is the standard word for blocking the progress of something, or for blocking up an opening, and the word specifically refers to the blocking of things from getting out of something.
[GENERAL]
2. Yǎn 掩 is the standard word for blocking visual access to an object.
[SPECIFIC]
3. Yōng 壅 (ant. chè 徹 "unblock") refers to blocking things from entering.
[SPECIFIC]
4. Dāng 當 refers to a deliberate act of standing in the way of something or ensuring that something cannot proceed in a natural way.
[SPECIFIC]
5. Bì 閉 refers to the blocking of something so as to prevent it to get out. See LOCK.
[SPECIFIC]
6. Xiàn 限 refers to a border as blocking access. See BORDER